Jie Yang

Bio

Jie Yang is associate professor of anthropology at Simon Fraser University. She was trained in linguistic and cultural anthropology, and her current research focuses on critical studies of psychology and mental health in China. She edited a volume The Political Economy of Affect and Emotion in East Asia (Routledge, 2014) and wrote two monographs entitled Unknotting the Heart: Unemployment and Therapeutic Governance in China (Cornell University Press, 2015) and Mental Health in China: Change, Tradition, and Therapeutic Governance (Polity Press, 2017).

2014 “The Politics of Affect and Emotion: Imagination, Potentiality and Anticipation in East Asia.” In The Political Economy of Affect and Emotion in East Asia, edited by Jie Yang, 1-28. London and New York: Routledge.

2014 “The Happiness of the Marginalized: Affect, Counseling and Self-Reflexivity in China.” In The Political Economy of Affect and Emotion in East Asia, edited by Jie Yang, 45-62. London and New York: Routledge.

2014 “Beauty Products and Health.” The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health and Society, eds. William C. Cockerham, Robert Dingwall and Stella Quah. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.